Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Gbit/s : t3.2xlarge Network Performance; 60% : chances DNA can be used to find your family; 12 : Happy birthday Hacker News!; adrianco : The AWS EC2 NTP service has been backed by atomic clocks for the last few years. 2080 Ti destroys V100 / Titan V on performance per dollar. Only few astute folks take seriously.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In the 2013 Amazon Shareholder letter , Jeff Bezos spent time explaining the decision to pursue a customer-centric way in our business. AWS has built a reputation over the years for the breadth and depth of our services and the pace of our innovation with 280 features released in 2013.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2013 05:00 PM. At AWS we are very proud to be their infrastructure partner and every day we learn from how they use our cloud services. Each of the category winners will also receive $5K worth of AWS credits. Best contribution to performance improvements. The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2013 06:30 PM. As customers move increasing amounts of compute and database workloads over to AWS, they have expressed an increased desire for finer grain control over their underlying resources. instances, then creating an AWS IAM policy that permits the modify action on these â??productionâ??

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All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 15 May 2013 06:30 PM. You can see from the pace at which we roll out new functionality that teams across AWS take this very seriously. Until now scans could only be performed sequentially, but with this new feature the scan can be split into multiple segments, each retrieved on their own thread. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MAY 22, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 22 May 2013 08:30 AM. s message of price , performance and simplicity has resonated with our customers. these are core principles for every AWS service. A lot of the power of AWS comes from the fact that we can invest in expertise in these sorts of areas and spread the benefits across all our customers.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 10, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 10 May 2013 09:30 AM. I have returned from a great series of AWS Summits in NYC and in Europe so it is time to get back to some weekend reading. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using continuations to implement thread management and communication in operating systems. Comments (). As part of the Mach 3.0

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc. We are really pleased with our Q1 performance and see it as continued validation of the massive market we are pursuing, our strong product market fit, and our ability to execute.” ” Nothing nefarious there.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 79

All Things Distributed

APRIL 17, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 17 April 2013 10:30 AM. While DynamoDB already allows you to perform low-latency queries based on your tableâ??s s primary key, even at tremendous scale, LSI will now give you the ability to perform fast queries against other attributes (or columns) in your table. Comments (). Today, Iâ??m

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Cloud Latency Games Scalability 116

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive commercial database management systems like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server, organizations are adopting new approaches and evolving their own to maintain the exceptional performance of their SQL deployments. of #PostgreSQL cloud deployments are run on AWS Click To Tweet.

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Strategy Cloud Java Open Source 182

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provider, DigitalOcean , for their hosting for MongoDB® needs. DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB. DigitalOcean Droplets.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. By Werner Vogels on 18 February 2013 11:30 PM. As with all the AWS Application Management services AWS OpsWorks is provided at no additional charge. AWS customers only pay for those resources that they have used.

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AWS Cloud Architecture Infrastructure 157

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud.

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Percona

DECEMBER 28, 2022

To understand this better let’s see what happens when we perform any DDL operation in a binary log-based replication environment and in the Aurora replication environment. If you are performing frequent DDL operations in your database, it is not recommended to take logical backups from Aurora Reader. Trying to reconnect.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In order to achieve this level of availability, we leverage an N+1 architecture where we treat Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions as fault domains, allowing us to withstand single region failures. can be abstracted by our key performance indicator, stream starts per second (SPS). requests, messages, connections, etc.)

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Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

In a predictable discovery, we found that Amazon Web Services (AWS) claimed the majority at 55% of use for all PostgreSQL hosting activities in a public cloud environment. Performance followed in fourth with 10.9% which placed well as they are often leveraged to ensure and maintain high performance for PostgreSQL.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 15 February 2013 12:01 AM. As you may remember from our announcement at re: Invent in November 2012, Amazon Redshift is a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that delivers fast query performance at less than one tenth the cost of most traditional data warehouse systems.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

blocking), discarding data, or none—which can lead to resilience problems, poor performance, or worse: rapid unscheduled disassembly in production. To address the problem of flow control, an initiative called reactive streams was created in late 2013 to “provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking backpressure.”.

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Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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